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Literature (21L)Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:46:36 GMT2015-03-22T17:46:36Z21L.006 American Literature, Fall 2002http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82537
21L.006 American Literature, Fall 2002
Kelley, Wyn
This is a HASS-D CI course. Like other communications-intensive courses in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, it allows students to produce 20 pages of polished writing with careful attention to revision. It also offers substantial opportunities for oral expression, through presentations of written work, student-led discussion, and class participation.&nbsp;The class has a low enrollment that ensures maximum attention to student writing and opportunity for oral expression, and a writing fellow/tutor is available for consultation on drafts and revisions.
Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/825372002-12-01T00:00:00Z21L.501 The American Novel, Fall 2002http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80321
21L.501 The American Novel, Fall 2002
Kelley, Wyn
The theme for this class is "American Revolution." We will read authors who record, on the one hand, the failures of the American revolution, with its dream of democracy and freedom for all, and on the other hand the potential for narrative to reenact that revolution successfully. In different ways, these authors overturn traditional or unethical authority through their literary innovations. Although certain classic American historical, political, and cultural issues will be at the center of our study--democracy, slavery, gender equity, social reform--we will concern ourselves primarily with literary strategies, with language and its uses. Essays will pursue close readings of the texts and develop students' abilities to think creatively and critically about fictional works.
Sun, 01 Dec 2002 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/803212002-12-01T00:00:00Z21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2007http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77985
21L.011 The Film Experience, Fall 2007
Thorburn, David
This course is an introduction to narrative film, emphasizing the unique properties of the movie house and the motion picture camera, the historical evolution of the film medium, and the intrinsic artistic qualities of individual films. The primary focus is on American cinema, but secondary attention is paid to works drawn from other great national traditions, such as France, Italy, and Japan. The syllabus includes such directors as Griffith, Keaton, Chaplin, Renoir, Ford, Hitchcock, Altman, De Sica, and Fellini.
Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/779852007-12-01T00:00:00Z21L.448J / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2009http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75798
21L.448J / 21W.739J Darwin and Design, Fall 2009
Paradis, James
In the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin gave us a model for understanding how natural objects and systems can evidence design without positing a designer: how purpose and mechanism can exist without intelligent agency. Texts in this course deal with pre- and post-Darwinian treatment of this topic within literature and speculative thought since the eighteenth century. We will give some attention to the modern study of feedback mechanisms in artificial intelligence. Our reading will be in Hume, Voltaire, Malthus, Darwin, Butler, H. G. Wells, and Turing.
Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/757982009-12-01T00:00:00Z